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Archive for 2005
Reception Celebrates 60 Plus Honorary Chairman’s 4th Book!60 Plus Association’s dynamic and forever young Honorary Chairman, Roger Zion (R-IN, 1967-75), 84 years old going on 44, moved back to Evansville, Indiana to take life a bit easier. Instead he wrote his fourth book, The Amazing Adventures of Congressman Roger Zion. November 3, 2005 | Read more… Pat Boone Celebrates 50 Years In Show Business…Pat Boone cranked out his first No. 1 hit record — a cover of Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame” — in 1955. He’s been at it ever since, notching 61 hits and earning himself a spot on Billboard magazine’s list of the top 10 best-selling recording artists of all time. Jim Martin, head honcho of national seniors’ group 60 Plus, was effusive in his praise of Boone who became the group’s national spokesperson in 2003. “I couldn’t be more proud of Pat’s accomplishment as a milestone showman if he were my own son!” October 11, 2005 | Read more… Help Katrina Victims: Abolish Death TaxStatement By 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin As Estate Tax Repeal Vote Is Postponed: “I believe the Senate was wise to postpone a vote on repeal of the death tax.” September 12, 2005 | Read more… To The House Of Lords: Kill The Death TaxToday, the U.S. Senate is poised to either drive a stake through the heart of the most confiscatory tax ever enacted or to go wobbly and allow this cruel, job-robbing, anti-growth estate tax to live on in infamy. September 6, 2005 | Read more… 107 Year Old “Temporary Tax” Must Go!Statement By 60 Plus Association President, Jim Martin “On behalf of the 60 Plus Association and senior citizens all across America, I am calling upon the 109th Congress to do what should have been done decades ago — the immediate and total repeal of the highly regressive ‘tax on talking’.” June 28, 2005 | Read more… Democrat, Republican Join Forces To Help Revamp Social SecuritySam Beard was in the room when the president of the United States made the pitch for Social Security reform. “He looked everyone in the eye and said the program is going to die,”Beard said. “He said to save Social Security, we are going to have to take major new steps.” That exchange took place in November 1998, and the president was Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush. Given the time and opportunity, Beard believes Clinton would have sought changes similar to those the president proposed earlier this year. June 27, 2005 | Read more… 60 Plus Applauds New Social Security ProposalsThe President’s leadership for Social Security reform is beginning to pay dividends. “In recent days, legislative proposals put forward by Senators’ Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Robert Bennett (R-UT) as well as Congressmen Sam Johnson (R-TX), Jim McCrery (R-LA), Clay Shaw (R-FL) and Paul Ryan (R-WI) all suggest reform is beginning to take root. June 23, 2005 | Read more… |
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